Summary:
Utah Arts Academy is the only high school in this area, serving grades 8–12 in Saint George, southern Utah, with 311 students. The school offers a small-school setting and has shown improving overall rankings, moving from the 36th percentile in 2023–24 to the 50th percentile in 2025–26, while increasing from a 2-star to a 3-star rating. Its reported student-teacher ratio is 17.7:1, and about 26% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Because there is only one school in the list, families cannot compare it directly with nearby schools using this dataset.
Utah Arts Academy has several encouraging outcomes. Its reported 2023–24 graduation rate was 92.2%, and its dropout rate was 7.8%, although the available statewide figures are from different years and are not exact same-year comparisons. Academic performance is strongest in selected upper-grade subjects: 10th-grade English Language Arts proficiency was 54.2%, six points above the state, while 9th-grade science reached 54.9%, five points above the state. Ninth-grade mathematics also exceeded the statewide result, at 43.1% compared with 39.4%.
The most important concerns are attendance and uneven achievement. Chronic absenteeism was 46.3% in 2024–25, nearly twice the statewide rate of 23.8%, making consistent attendance a major issue for families to investigate. Eighth-grade results were below the state in English, mathematics, and science, with science 22.6 points lower and mathematics below 21%. Tenth-grade mathematics was particularly weak at 10.7%, compared with 29.4% statewide. Overall, parents should view Utah Arts Academy as a school with improving rankings, strong graduation outcomes, and clear strengths in some subjects, but with a need for focused support in attendance, eighth-grade instruction, and mathematics—especially in 10th grade.
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